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Welcome to TAC! I’ve been a member for about 8 months now, faithfully logging in every day to try the challenges before working on other interests. Usually I can manage some degree of success at the exercises, sometimes only at a slow pace, but I think it’s more important to try for clean picking or strumming. When I encounter a challenge that just too tough for me, I drop it and move on to other things.
I have found the daily challenges to be a huge help for me in improving my finger dexterity. Even if I don’t see any practical application for some of them for my playing goals, I can see how much they’ve allowed me to progress with hitting the right strings, getting better at skills like hammer-ons and pull-offs, etc.
Of course it depends on what your learning priorities are, but for example if you want to learn songs, you can practice your chord changes using common 3 and 4 chord progressions (like G-D-Em-C, for example). I know my enjoyment increased big time when I finally got to the point where I could do these fairly easily and quickly.
Most of all, you’re doing the right thing by coming here to the forums – I’ve always found there are plenty of fellow TACers who are eager to offer advice and encouragement!